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00:00I left my IT job to prepare for UPSC and I feel anxious as there's no guarantee of success.
00:06No, there are no guarantees. Nobody gave me a guarantee and I'm not going to give a guarantee to anybody.
00:12And assurance is needed only when there is something to secure.
00:16Maybe I'm trying to secure a future.
00:18There was somebody you were trying to please via an IT job.
00:22Now that same thing you were trying to please through a government job.
00:26It's not really a practical obligation to do something massive in life.
00:32Alright, most people do not do that and yet on an average live to the age of 80.
00:39That's how it is the world over.
00:40Nobody does anything great or colossal and yet people live, you know, on an average kind of happy lives.
00:47We are not obliged practically to be great.
00:50What you people want is the best of both worlds.
00:53They have become the worst of both worlds to be great.
00:57It's like speeding.
00:58Speeding.
00:58Yes, you must speed.
01:00But then as you speed, you have to keep dropping your mass.
01:03You can speed up to match the velocity of light.
01:07You can do that.
01:08But you will have to keep dropping mass.
01:10Depends on how much you are enthralled by light.
01:13It's a love affair.
01:14I will have to keep going.
01:15It's a love affair.
01:15You

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